Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extinct Semitic language spoken in ancient Sheba.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Sabian , Sabian. - See
Sabean , Sabean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Same as
sabian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Sabaean
culture . - noun An extinct
Semitic language spoken inSheba . - noun history An
individual that is part of the ancient Sabaeanpeople .
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Examples
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Arabian language called Sabaean, and ancient Ethiopian Ge'ez.
Slate Magazine Eliza Griswold 2010
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Baghdad has 70 seats, one of which is specifically allocated to Christians and one to the Iraqi Baptists known as the Sabaean-Mandaeans.
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"Sabaean" is Mr. Beal's reading of them, probably correct.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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"I crawled beneath the stone – wary of a 9ft cobra I was warned lives here – and came face to face with an inscription in Sabaean, the language that the Queen of Sheba would have spoken."
Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth 2012
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An ancient human skull is embedded in the entrance shaft, which bears Sabaean chiselling.
Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth 2012
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Sana'a is the capital, home to the central government and largest city, an ancient one dating back to the 6th century BC Sabaean dynasty.
Obama's War on Yemen 2010
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Sana'a is the capital, home to the central government and largest city, an ancient one dating back to the 6th century BC Sabaean dynasty.
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Famous for its unique translucent alabaster windows known as gammariyas, which trace their origins back to the Sabaean rulers who built the skyscraper palace of Ghumdan 1,800 years ago, the city has a medieval flavor to it.
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Famous for its unique translucent alabaster windows known as gammariyas, which trace their origins back to the Sabaean rulers who built the skyscraper palace of Ghumdan 1,800 years ago, the city has a medieval flavor to it.
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The sculpture is especially remarkable, as seen in a classically inspired second-century A.D. cast-bronze head and a sixth-century B.C. cast-bronze altar on which rows of sphinxes visually echo the dedicatory inscription in stylized Sabaean letters above them.
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